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Schmitz, John Peter

merchant, physician, surgeon, lecturer, author, was born Feb. 24, 1834, in Germany. In 1855 he emigrated to America and engaged in mercantile pursuits.

In 1875 he entered the Cooper Medical college of San Francisco; and subsequently attended the California Medical college, graduating therefrom in 1881, and has since attained prominence as a successful physician of San Francisco, and a noted lecturer and teacher of physiology to medical students, having held the chair of physiology in the California Medical college since 1886. He is the author of a work on Human Physiology, Analysis and Digest, for the use of Medical Students and Practitioners; and valuable papers and pamphlets on the cause of diphtheria and croup have appeared from his pen.